https://twitter.com/RandallOtisTV/status/1340313416322445314?s=19

        • CountryRoads [fae/faer,it/its]
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          4 years ago

          The State and Revolution has some truly timeless passages. Even 100 years ago, social democrats were championing voting as the solution to all of life's evils.

          • volkvulture [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/obsc/obsc.htm

            nerds & non-nerds alike should know about and read this one too

            Lenin blows my mind with just how broad his considerations are & how razor sharp his wit is, all the while keeping the main point focused on real-life practicality & economy & utility within the writing

              • volkvulture [none/use name]
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                yes, Lenin dunks on Lassalle without using the n-w*rd

                imo it proves something more fundamental about how Western thought is bound up historically & made useless by thinking the past is naturally obscure or impenetrable

                but the point being made as I see it is that philosophy should be a tool to help us notice iniquities & change the world, and not merely idly interpret these things. & I think even Heraclitus communicates that point where all these fancy lads since the Enlightenment can't understand it at all

  • deadtoddler420 [any]
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    bro all you gotta do to become a leftist is watch a kubrick movie and listen to someone talk about how hot couches can be

    • pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      when stavros talked about accepting being a dumb socialist, that's when I knew I had found my place.

    • Ketamine_device_tech [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      all you gotta do to become a leftist is watch a kubrick movie

      HMMMM I wonder why the film critics in Hollywood didn't see the misogynist rape culture in the movie Eyes Wide Shut? Jeffrey Epstein culture 👁️

      https://timkreider.com/introducing-sociology/

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    It's kinda weird that half the Daily Show's staff writers are leftists, yet the show itself is pure, uncut liberal cocaine.

    • CountryRoads [fae/faer,it/its]
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      Because that's exactly who the "Left" in America IS right now - aggrieved 20-35 year olds, who tend to work in media or service jobs, who will eventually grow out of it. They will be posing naked and bawling like babies to get you to vote for Pete Buttigieg over President Logan Paul in the 2044 election.